Damon Runyon Quotes

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

Damon Runyon

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl
  • Just
  • Jennifer

• I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ethics

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Back
  • Finish
  • Throw

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • God
  • Wife
  • Baby

• More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change. . . . This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Education

• According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

  

  Vanity
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

  

  Euripides
  • Story
  • Leaders
  • Vicious Men

• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Baby
  • Innovation
  • Clothes